Dermot Canavan

Training: Drama Studio London.

Theatre: Lazar Wolf in Fiddler on the Roof (Playhouse Theatre and Menier Chocolate Factory); Grandpa’s Great Escape (Arena Tour); Cord Elam in Oklahoma (Grange Park Opera); George in The Last Tango (Phoenix Theatre); Doc in West Side Story (Kilworth House Theatre); Major Courtney in The Ladykillers (The Watermill Theatre); Foster Wilson/Pawnee Bill /cover Charley in Annie Get Your Gun (UK Tour); Keith in Dick Whittington and his Cat (Lyric, Hammersmith); Smee in Peter Pan (Richmond Theatre); John in Get Got (Janski Productions); Stephano in The Tempest; Tranio in The Taming Of The Shrew; Man 1 in The 39 Steps (Criterion Theatre); Male Authority Figure/Wilbur and Edna in Hairspray (Shaftesbury Theatre); Poppineau in In The Club (Hampstead Theatre); Christmas Present/Fezziwig And Others in A Christmas Carol (Hidden Pearl Productions); Falstaff in The Merry Wives Of Windsor (Oxford Shakespeare Company); Witch/Porter in Macbeth (Oxford Shakespeare Company); Chorus in The Incarcerator; Luce/Courtesan/Abbes in A Comedy of Errors (Oxford Shakespeare Company); Vanity/Squire in Mother Goose (Pneuma Arts); Boswell in Office Suite (Theatre Royal); Prospero in The Tempest (Ragz Theatre Company); Al in April In Paris (White Fox Productions); C.S.M Rivers/Arthur Boogis in The Accrington Pals (White Fox Productions).

Television: Gavin Dunn in Doctors; Colin Stephens in Cuffs; Clerk Of The Court in Dalziel and Pascoe (BBC Television);Catering Manager in Where The Heart Is (Meridian Broadcasting); Thomas Bradley in Silent Witness (BBC Television).

Commercial: Magician in Harvey’s Sofa Advert; Butcher in Tesco’s; Regular Character in Peugeot Channel Four Indent (Knucklehead); Dad in Morrison's Commercial (DKLW); Kevin in ABC 1 (Walt Disney); Dad in BT (A. V. Browne Advertising); Premiership Football (Sky Television).

Film: Janitor in Like Crazy (Ascension Productions).

Workshop: Eric and Ensemble in Rehab (Union Theatre) Bock and Others in Mephisto (MJE Productions).

You can follow Dermot on Twitter and Instagram. @derrybear.

Dermot is a Playwright. A new production of his play Third Finger, Left Hand has just opened in Prague. He also has a Blog called The Bear and the Woods.